Donald Trump has labeled the probe into alleged Russian collision as 'treasonous' in the president's first interview since the conclusion of Robert Mueller's report.
A relaxed president said Wednesday he wants to 'get to the bottom' of how the Russia collusion accusations began while also slamming Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's signature Green New Deal.
He told Fox News host Sean Hannity: 'If the Republican party had done this to the Democrats, if we had done this to President Obama, you'd have a hundred people in jail right now, it'd be treason.
'If you wrote this as a novel, nobody would buy it; it would be a failure, because it would be too unbelievable.
'We're getting to the bottom of it. This can never, ever happen to a president again. That was a disgrace and an embarrassment to our country. Hopefully they won't get away with it.
'We'll have to see how it all started, but I'm going to leave that to other people, including the attorney general and others, to make that determination.
'Fifty years, 100 years from now if someone tries the same thing, they have to know the penalty will be very very great if and when they get caught.'
In a wide-ranging interview Wednesday night a collected Trump also took the time to slam Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's signature Green New Deal as 'ridiculous'.
He said: 'I really do want to campaign against it. It's ridiculous. The new green deal is going nowhere.'
Donald Trump spoke to Fox News host Sean Hannity via phone on Wednesday night
A relaxed president told Fox News host Sean Hannity he wants to 'get to the bottom' of how the Russia collusion accusations began while also slamming the Green New Deal
Trump said he 'really wants to campaign against' the Green New Deal championed by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, pictured center
The president also vowed to release the full Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrants and related documents used by the FBI to probe his campaign after slamming former FBI Director James Comey as 'terrible'.
'You had dirty cops, you had people who are bad FBI folks ... At the top, they were not clean, to put it mildly.' He added: 'We can never allow these treasonous acts to happen to another president.'
He said: 'I do, I have plans to declassify and release. I have plans to absolutely release. I have some very talented people working for me, lawyers, they really didn't want me to do it early on.'
Trump declared himself 'exonerated' by the Mueller report's findings on Sunday and said 'no president should have to endure' a similar investigation.
Speaking Wednesday he labelled CNN 'so fake, so horribly fake,' and also bashed MSNBC.
The president insisted 'Russia would much rather have Hillary than Donald Trump', but added the U.S. should have a 'great relationship' with both Russia and China.
Fired FBI director James Comey had earlier insisted that he was right to start investigating Trump and his campaign over potential collusion with Russia saying: 'However could the FBI leave that alone?'
Comey told NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt that he stood by his decision in July 2016, despite Robert Mueller being revealed this weekend to have found no evidence of collusion.
Trump declared himself 'exonerated' by the Mueller report's findings on Sunday and said 'no president should have to endure' a similar investigation. A relaxed president spoke with Fox News host Hannity on Wednesday evening
Obama-era officials who are playing defense against the White House after Mueller ruled out 'collusion'
Former FBI Director James Comey
Comey's conduct in both his handling of the Clinton email scandal and the Russia probe has already come under scrutiny by House Republican investigators. Now, with the delivery of the Mueller report, Comey could is facing a new pressure to explain his decisions. President Trump cited Comey's conduct in the email probe as the reason he fired the longtime FBI official early in his presidency. Comey had himself announced in July 2016 the decision not to prosecute Clinton, even as he chided her for carelessness in her emails. After his firing, Comey delivered riveting testimony to Congress about what he took as pressure from Trump to ease off prosecution of National Security Advisor Mike Flynn. Now, Judiciary Chairman Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina wants to pursue the matter further. 'Why did he take over the investigation in July, make a statement that she did a lot of bad things but not quite a crime. That did affect this election,' said Graham on Monday.
Former CIA Director John Brennan
Brennan cast off his normally tight-lipped persona to become one of President Trump's fiercest critics after he ended his tenure. In one example, he retweeted Trump in January, writing: 'Your cabal of unprincipled, unethical, dishonest, and sycophantic cronies is being methodically brought to justice. We all know where this trail leads. If your utter incompetence is not enough to run you out of office, your increasingly obvious political corruption surely will.' He predicted the Mueller probe could ensnare Trump family members. He predicted, incorrectly, that Mueller would bring additional indictments dealing with criminal conspiracy.
Former FBI agent Peter Strzok
Strzok was fired as one of the lead investigators on the Russia probe after his anti-Trump text exchanges with lover Lisa Page were revealed. After his texts were first uncovered during the course of an inspector general's probe, Strzok was transferred to another position in human resources. When he was fired, Trump tweeted: 'Agent Peter Strzok was just fired from the FBI — finally.' In one infamous August 2016 text to Page, Strzok wrote about Page's apparent contention in a meeting that there was 'no way' Trump would get elected. 'It's like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before 40,' he said. Republicans pointed to the email as signal of partisan origins of the probe, and cast the comment as a plan to keep Trump from becoming president. Strzok denied that interpretation, and defenders noted Strzok could have just been defending the need to open a counterintelligence probe even of someone unlikely to win.
Former FBI lawyer Lisa Page
Page was a high-level FBI lawyer who advised former Deputy Director Andrew McCabe. Like Strzok, she worked on both the Hillary Clinton email probe and the Russia probe. She resigned her post amid the inquiry into messages she exchanged with Strzok. In one piece of newly-revealed information, she told Congress the Obama Justice Department told investigators not to charge Clinton with gross negligence over her emails. 'We neither had sufficient evidence to charge gross negligence, nor had it ever been done, because the Department viewed it as constitutionally vague' Page told a joint committee investigating the prosecutorial decisions. She said investigators had studied it because there was 'potential' for the charge.
Former senior Justice Department official Bruce Ohr
Ohr came under scrutiny for his role in the transmission of information from the Steele dossier to the FBI. Ohr is a senior Justice Department official who had prior professional contacts going back years with former British Intelligence officer Christopher Steele. Steele famously authored what became known as the dossier about Russia contacts to Trump officials as well as unproven salacious allegations about the candidate. Ohr had a specialty that focused on organized and international crime. In addition, Ohr testified that he took additional information that was gathered by his wife, Nellie Ohr, who worked for Fusion GPS political intelligence firm. He told investigators she gave him a memory stick containing information she gathered on Russian figures. Trump has regularly attacked Ohr as a 'disgrace' on Twitter.
Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper
Clapper had early insights into the origins of the Russia probe. When he left office after the Obama administration, he took a job as a CNN commentator, and became a fierce critic of President Trump's. Clapper, along with Brennan and others, who ended up on a list the White House compiled of officials whose security clearances would be revoked. The White House said it was to target people who made 'baseless' accusations or had 'monetized' their public service. 'I think this is just a very, very petty thing to do,' Clapper said afterward. GOP critics blasted his testimony had given to Congress about warrantless surveillance, claiming he may have perjured himself. Clapper denied at a 2013 Senate hearing that the NSA was not 'wittingly' collecting information on millions of Americans. 'No, sir … Not wittingly,' Clapper responded.
In his first interview since Attorney General Bill Barr published a four-page summary of Mueller's report, Comey said he was 'confused' about how Trump came to be cleared of obstruction of justice, and about why the president had not been subpoenaed for an interview by the special counsel.
He also accused Trump of a campaign to 'burn down an institution of justice because he saw it as a threat', and accused him of 'terrible' lies about himself, the FBI and Mueller.
'The investigation had to happen,' Comey said.
Mueller - the final tally: Eight convictions, a jailed attorney and 25 Russians accused
GUILTY: MICHAEL FLYNN
Pleaded guilty to making false statements in December 2017. Awaiting sentence
Flynn was President Trump's former National Security Advisor and Robert Mueller's most senior scalp to date. He previously served when he was a three star general as President Obama's director of the Defense Intelligence Agency but was fired.
He admitted to lying to special counsel investigators about his conversations with a Russian ambassador in December 2016. He has agreed to cooperate with the special counsel investigation.
GUILTY: MICHAEL COHEN
Pleaded guilty to eight counts including fraud and two campaign finance violations in August 2018. Pleaded guilty to further count of lying to Congress in November 2018. Sentenced to three years in prison and $2 million in fines and forfeitures in December 2018
Cohen was Trump's longtime personal attorney, starting working for him and the Trump Organization in 2007. He is the longest-serving member of Trump's inner circle to be implicated by Mueller. Cohen professed unswerving devotion to Trump - and organized payments to silence two women who alleged they had sex with the-then candidate: porn star Stormy Daniels and Playboy model Karen McDougal. He admitted that payments to both women were felony campaign finance violations - and admitted that he acted at the 'direction' of 'Candidate-1': Donald Trump.
He also admitted tax fraud by lying about his income from loans he made, money from taxi medallions he owned, and other sources of income, at a cost to the Treasury of $1.3 million.
And he admitted lying to Congress in a rare use of the offense. The judge in his case let him report for prison on March 6 and recommended he serve it in a medium-security facility close to New York City.
GUILTY AND JAILED: PAUL MANAFORT
Found guilty of eight charges of bank and tax fraud in August 2018. Sentenced to 47 months in March 2019. Pleaded guilty to two further charges - witness tampering and conspiracy against the United States. Jailed for total of seven and a half years in two separate sentences. Additionally indicted for mortgage fraud by Manhattan District Attorney, using evidence previously presented by Mueller
Manafort worked for Trump's campaign from March 2016 and chaired it from June to August 2016, overseeing Trump being adopted as Republican candidate at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. He is the most senior campaign official to be implicated by Mueller. Manafort was one of Washington D.C.'s longest-term and most influential lobbyists but in 2015, his money dried up and the next year he turned to Trump for help, offering to be his campaign chairman for free - in the hope of making more money afterwards. But Mueller unwound his previous finances and discovered years of tax and bank fraud as he coined in cash from pro-Russia political parties and oligarchs in Ukraine.
Manafort pleaded not guilty to 18 charges of tax and bank fraud but was convicted of eight counts in August 2018. The jury was deadlocked on the other 10 charges. A second trial on charges of failing to register as a foreign agent due in September did not happen when he pleaded guilty to conspiracy against the United States and witness tampering in a plea bargain. He was supposed to co-operate with Mueller but failed to.
Minutes after his second sentencing hearing in March 2019, he was indicted on 16 counts of fraud and conspiracy by the Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr., using evidence which included documents previously presented at his first federal trial. The president has no pardon power over charges by district and state attorneys.
GUILTY: RICK GATES
Pleaded guilty to conspiracy against the United States and making false statements in February 2018. Awaiting sentence
Gates was Manafort's former deputy at political consulting firm DMP International. He admitted to conspiring to defraud the U.S. government on financial activity, and to lying to investigators about a meeting Manafort had with a member of congress in 2013. As a result of his guilty plea and promise of cooperation, prosecutors vacated charges against Gates on bank fraud, bank fraud conspiracy, failure to disclose foreign bank accounts, filing false tax returns, helping prepare false tax filings, and falsely amending tax returns.
GUILTY AND JAILED: GEORGE PAPADOPOLOUS
Pleaded guilty to making false statements in October 2017. Sentenced to 14 days in September 2018, and reported to prison in November. Served 12 days and released on December 7, 2018
Papadopoulos was a member of Donald Trump's campaign foreign policy advisory committee. He admitted to lying to special counsel investigators about his contacts with London professor Josef Mifsud and Ivan Timofeev, the director of a Russian government-funded think tank.
He has agreed to cooperate with the special counsel investigation.
GUILTY AND JAILED: RICHARD PINEDO
Pleaded guilty to identity fraud in February 2018. Sentenced to a year in prison
Pinedo is a 28-year-old computer specialist from Santa Paula, California. He admitted to selling bank account numbers to Russian nationals over the internet that he had obtained using stolen identities.
He has agreed to cooperate with the special counsel investigation.
GUILTY AND JAILED: ALEX VAN DER ZWAAN
Pleaded guilty to making false statements in February 2018. He served a 30-day prison sentence and was deported to the Netherlands on his release
Van der Zwaan was a Dutch attorney for Skadden Arps who worked on a Ukrainian political analysis report for Paul Manafort in 2012.
He admitted to lying to special counsel investigators about when he last spoke with Rick Gates and Konstantin Kilimnik. His law firm say he was fired.
GUILTY: W. SAMUEL PATTEN
Pleaded guilty in August 2018 to failing to register as a lobbyist while doing work for a Ukrainian political party. Awaiting sentence
Patten, a long-time D.C. lobbyist was a business partner of Paul Manafort. He pleaded guilty to admitting to arranging an illegal $50,000 donation to Trump's inauguration.
He arranged for an American 'straw donor' to pay $50,000 to the inaugural committee, knowing that it was actually for a Ukrainian businessman.
Neither the American or the Ukrainian have been named.
CHARGED: KONSTANTIN KILIMNIK
Indicted for obstruction of justice and conspiracy to obstruct justice. At large, probably in Russia
Kilimnik is a former employee of Manafort's political consulting firm and helped him with lobbying work in Ukraine. He is accused of witness tampering, after he allegedly contacted individuals who had worked with Manafort to remind them that Manafort only performed lobbying work for them outside of the U.S.
He has been linked to Russian intelligence and is currently thought to be in Russia - effectively beyond the reach of extradition by Mueller's team.
INDICTED: THE RUSSIANS
Twenty-five Russian nationals and three Russian entities have been indicted for conspiracy to defraud the United States. They remain at large in Russia
Two of these Russian nationals were also indicted for conspiracy to commit wire fraud and 11 were indicted for conspiracy to launder money. Fifteen of them were also indicted for identity fraud.
Vladimir Putin has ridiculed the charges. Russia effectively bars extradition of its nationals. The only prospect Mueller has of bringing any in front of a U.S. jury is if Interpol has their names on an international stop list - which is not made public - and they set foot in a territory which extradites to the U.S.
INDICTED: MICHAEL FLYNN'S BUSINESS PARTNERS
Bijan Kian (left), number two in now disgraced former national security adviser Mike Flynn's lobbying company, and the two's business partner Ekim Alptekin (right) were indicted for conspiracy to lobby illegally. Kian is awaiting trial, Alptekin is still to appear in court
Kian, an Iranian-American was arrested and appeared in court charged with a conspiracy to illegally lobby the U.S government without registering as a foreign agent. Their co-conspirator was Flynn, who is called 'Person A' in the indictment and is not charged, offering some insight into what charges he escaped with his plea deal.
Kian, vice-president of Flynn's former lobbying firm, is alleged to have plotted with Alptekin to try to change U.S. policy on an exiled Turkish cleric, Fethullah Gulen, who lives in Pennsylvania and who is accused by Turkey's strongman president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, of trying to depose him.
Erdogan's government wanted him extradited from the U.S. and paid Flynn's firm through Alptekin for lobbying, including an op-ed in The Hill calling for Gulen to be ejected. Flynn and Kian both lied that the op-ed was not paid for by the Turkish government.
The indictment is a sign of how Mueller is taking an interest in more than just Russian involvement in the 2016 election.
INDICTED: ROGER STONE
Roger Stone, a former Trump campaign official and longtime informal advisor to Trump, was indited on seven counts including obstruction of justice, witness tampering, and lying to Congress about his communications with WikiLeaks in January 2019. Awaiting trial
Stone was a person of interest to Mueller's investigators long before his January indictment, thanks in part due to his public pronouncements as well as internal emails about his contacts with WikiLeks.
In campaign texts and emails, many of which had already been publicly revealed before showing up in Mueller's indictment, Stone communicated with associates about WikiLeaks following reports the organization had obtained a cache of Clinton-related emails.
Stone, a former Nixon campaign adviser who has the disgraced former president's face permanently tattooed on his back, has long been portrayed as a central figure in the election interference scandal, but as recently as January 4 told Dailymail.com that he doesn't expect to be indicted.
'They got nothing,' he said of the special counsel's investigation.
According to the federal indictment, Stone gave 'false and misleading' testimony about his requests for information from WikiLeaks. He then pressured a witness, comedian Randy Credico, to take the Fifth Amendment rather than testify, and pressured him in a series of emails. Following a prolonged dispute over testimony, he called him a 'rat' and threatened to 'take that dog away from you', in reference to Credico's pet, Bianca. Stone warned him: 'Let's get it on. Prepare to die.'
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Emily Ratajkowski is a showman, on and off the stage. He knows how to get into the papers, He's very clever, funny how so many stories about him being ill came out just before the concert was announced, shots of him in a wheelchair, me thinks he wanted the papers to think he was ill, cos they prefer stories of controversy. Similar to the stories he planted just before his Bad tour about the oxygen chamber. Worked a treat lol. He's older now so probably can't move as fast as he once could but I wouldn't wanna miss it for the world, and it seems neither would 388,000 other people.
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